رَهْوٌ

verbal noun of 1. (S, K, &c.)

Also An intervening space (JK, TA) between two things, (JK,) as, for instance, between the two humps of a camel of the species termed فَالِج. (TA.)

A place where water remains and collects or stagnates: (JK, TA:) a جَوْبَة [i. e. a depressed place, or a hollow, or an excavation, or such as is round and wide,] in the place of abode of a people, into which flows the rain-water or other fluid: (A 'Obeyd, S:) or, as also ↓ رَهْوَةٌ, a depressed place (S, K) in which water collects: (S:) and, both words, an elevated place: thus they have two contr. significations: (S, K:) or ↓ رَهْوَةٌ signifies an elevation like a hillock, upon a hard and elevated, or an elevated and plain, tract of ground, or upon a mountain, (JK, TA,) where hawks and eagles alight: (TA:) or a hillock inclining to softness, two or three cubits in height, but only in a soft tract of ground, and in hard, or hard and level, ground consisting of earth, mould, or clay; not upon a mountain: (TA:) [and according to some, it signifies a mountain itself; for] Ghatafán are called in a tradition تَنْبَعُ مَاءً ↓ رَهْوَةٌ, meaning a mountain welling forth water: or it means that in them were roughness and hardness: (TA:) the plural [according to the S apparently of رَهْوٌ, and according to the TA apparently of ↓ رَهْوَةٌ, in each case agreeable with analogy,] is رِهَاءٌ. * (S, TA.)

[Also, according to Golius, as on the authority of the KL, A way through a market-place, at the sides of which sit the sellers: but not in my copy of the KL.]

-A2- Also Wide, ample, or spacious. (TA.)

A well (بِيءْرٌ) wide in the mouth. (TA.)

A woman (S) wide in the vulva; (Lth, ISh, S, K;) as also ↓ رَهْوَى (Lth, K) and ↓ رَهَاءٌ: (IAar, K:) [or] a woman who will not refrain from vitious conduct, or adultery, or fornication; as also ↓ رَهْوَى: (JK, TA:) or (TA) a woman that is not approved on the occasion of جِمَاع, (JK, TA,) because of her being wide [in the vulva]. (JK.)

A thing dispersed, or scattered. (TA.)

And sometimes, Quick, or swift. (TA.)

And Still, quiet, or motionless. (TA.)

And [hence, or مَطَرٌ رَهْوٌ,] A still rain. (TA.)

-A3- Also A company of men (JK, K, TA) following one another. (TA.) And غَارَةٌ رَهْوٌ [A company of horsemen making a raid, or an inroad, or incursion,] following one another. (TA.) And one says, النَّاسُ رَهْوٌ وَاحِدٌ مَا بَيْنَ كَذَا وَ كَذَا i. e. مُتَنَاظِرُونَ [apparently meaning The people are disposed consecutively in one double rank, partly such and partly such, facing one another]. (TA.)

-A4- Also A certain species of bird; as some say, (S,) the [species of crane called] كُرْكِىّ: (JK, S, K, TA:) or a certain aquatic bird resembling the كركىّ: (TA:) plural رِهَاءٌ. (JK.)

-A5- And A headcovering which is next to the head, and which very soon becomes dirty. (TA.)